British Person Explains The 50 Biggest Cities USA 

1 New York 1:05:24 2 Los Angeles 1:03:55 3 Chicago 1:02:02 4 Houston 59:23 5 Phoenix 58:25 6 Philadelphia 56:49 7 San Antonio 56:00 8 San Diego 55:30 9 Dallas 55:08 10 San Jose 54:10 11 Austin 53:16 12 Jacksonville 52:03 13 Fort Worth 51:18 14 Columbus 50:46 15 San Francisco 46:26 16 Charlotte 44:45 17 Indianapolis 43:58 18 Seattle 42:22 19 Denver 40:42 20 Washington DC 39:10 21 Boston 37:00 22 El Paso 35:01 23 Detroit 33:38 24 Nashville 32:26 25 Portland 30:33 26 Memphis 30:09 27 Oklahoma City 29:23 28 Las Vegas 26:24 29 Louisville 25:36 30 Baltimore 24:46 31 Milwaukee 24:09 32 Albuquerque 21:17 33 Tucson 20:37 34 Fresno 20:10 35 Mesa 19:34 36 Sacramento 18:33 37 Atlanta 16:18 38 Kansas City 15:50 39 Colorado Springs 15:16 40 Miami 14:10 41 Raleigh 13:28 42 Omaha 12:37 43 Long Beach 10:38 44 Virginia Beach 9:34 45 Oakland 8:25 46 Minneapolis 5:56 47 Tulsa 4:52 48 Arlington 4:13 49 Tampa 3:24 50 New Orleans 2:02

"It's named after king Louis I think" Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

"It's like a city inside a city." Yeah, that would never happen in England. Especially not a city with a confusingly-similar name to the much larger city that surrounds it, which is the bloody capital city of the country.

"Milwaukee is the capitol of wisconsin" r.i.p madison, you will be missed

Toycat should do a video like this but about the British counties so we can see how British he really is

Mount Trashmore is legitimately called that as a kind of joke name after Mount Rushmore. It's a former landfill that was converted into a park

Paul McCartney: "Jojo was a man from Tooson, Arizona...." Brits: Tuckson.

9:11 oh my god he found it, he found the legendary ship.

The fact you saw your first car crash happen in Albuquerque sums up everything you need to know about NM tbh

My man said “San josey” 😂😂😂😂😂

Its called Tampa Am and Tampa Pro. It is not only real but probably the biggest, relevant and longest lasting contest in skateboarding. I think it has been going on for I wanna say like 40 years at least. I could be wrong about the time frame but its been a thing for as long as I've been skating and thats over 20 years.

As an Italian; I absolutely adore Texas. In Europe, and even other American cities I’ve been to (LA, Chicago, and New York) people are very hurried and not very personable. But I’ve kept going back to Texas because the people are so friendly, and I never could’ve imagined the geographical distance, and difference between Houston, Austin, El Paso, and Dallas, which amazed me.

*Every American cringing when he says “Tuck-son”

USA: has worlds largest navy UK: *cries* that’s my son

I live in Minneapolis and an interesting thing about downtown is that we have the skyway that connect buildings, but we also have tunnels that span all of downtown that connect the buildings too.

Detroit was where they made cars. Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee were all major industrial centers due to their location being at the then-center of the US's population, relative proximity to sources of raw and processed materials, and being on the Great Lakes and/or large navigable rivers. It's all about logistics.

*Houstonians hearing a British person barely talking about dallas* "Ahh victory"

Toycat: says Tuckson Americans: so you have chosen death

British: let's learn what the biggest cities in the USA are! Americans: let's see if he got something wrong.

i knew we were in for a bumpy ride when i heard him say with confidence that he *knew* the states all had equal political power

11:46: Condos are owned while apartments are rented. The units pretty much are the same

As an American, I’m impressed that a British guy knows so much about American cities! Sure, it wasn’t 100% accurate (i.e. Long Beach is cheaper than LA, not pricier), but he seems to know more about American cities than most Americans. Not to mention, most of us couldn’t talk about a foreign country for half this long without having to stop to use Google. Nice work!

The reason VA beach has such a big population is because it covers a large land area which is all largely suburban with a little urban sprawl at places like Town Center. Land wise VA Beach is one of the largest cities in the nation.

For me it was hilarious hearing him talk about how it is in the middle of the "high speed rail between Northern and Southern California." As if we had any real public transit in CA, the lack of a lightrail is a sore issue for may.

Milwaukee I know it's the capital of Wisconsin Madison am I a joke to you

You rent an "apartment" but purchase a "condo", generally

Toycat: *moves his cursor over my hometown* Me: senpai has noticed me-

I'll be honest, I just skipped to the part about Minneapolis, and I was pleased to hear all good things. Thank you, come back anytime!

A condo is owned by the people that live there while an apartment is rented. Otherwise, they're exactly the same physically

"I walked all the way around Boston at 4 am with a giant extra large slurpy in one hand and some beef jerky in the other and then went to ihop". -Ibxtoycat That, my friend, is one of the most American things I have ever heard and I love it

This was really fun to watch. I've travelled to all of these cities in the US and I love your impressions from the outside. It's really neat.

9:14 that is the Evergreen boat stuck in the Suez Canal lol

The capital of Wisconsin is Madison, this bothered me sm😭😭

Tucson: "TUCK-son" LOL ("TOO-sahn")

Come to Milwaukee, (M'wah-kee) post covid, especially in the summer. We are very proud of the different ethnicities we have here, and there is a festival every weekend for a different culture. Also it's not the capitol of Wisconsin, it's actually like a smaller, more navigable version of Chicago. We don't have as many traffic jams, unless you go by the festival park for Summerfest, or something.

41:55 I really would recommend anyone visiting Colorado to take this train. It is called the California Zephyr and it's the most gorgeous ride you will ever take. I'd recommend stopping and staying Glenwood and enjoy the massive hot springs pool !

11:46 a condo is owned by the person an apartment is rented. (from my understanding)

Toycat: Says Milwaukee is the capital of Wisconsin Me: Knowing it is Madison

As someone from Virginia, I think Virginia Beach is heavily populated because people go there to retire because it is a beach and cheap to live there. Also there's a lot of Navy/Air Force bases there, so people move there to work in the military.

Great video! I’m actually contemplating moving to Tuck-son. You know a great deal about my country. Very impressive. Keep up the good work. I’m interested in traveling to Bulgaria and your channel was recommended with the Bulgaria joining the Euro in 2024 video.

Okay so... Raleigh is a tech hub because it’s located in research triangle park, where there are 3 major universities. NC State, Duke and UNC.

Next Video: Britsh person explains every ex-British empire country

Condos are the same as apartments, except you own a condo just as you own a home. It’s your property with a mortgage etc.. Apartments are leased with regular payments to the property owner.

We need an updated video with the top 100 cities! This is my favorite toycat video or house hunting in Seattle

Tucson is pronounced "Tu-son" - silent C.

You rent an apartment, but a condo is an apartment that you own

Your map has El Paso in the panhandle where Amarillo is...

For Atlanta’s airport, I had a plane ride out of there (we were connecting from one flight to another in Atlanta) about two weeks ago. The gate we got in from the last plane was “close” to the gate we had to get to. We walked there for about 20 minutes. Then, after getting on the plane, the plane had to take a while to get to the runway, then waited in a line for about 25 minutes. The airport is huge.

As someone from the Phoenix area, yeah, Mesa is literally just a large subarb Also Tucson lol it's pronounced too-son but it's fine, mispronounce away. The real rivalry is Phoenix and Tucson, not Mesa

90% of comments: “He pronounced Tucson wrong 9% of comments: “He didn’t like my hometown!” 2% of comments: “I never learned math.”

Condos are usually owned after fully paying off the mortgage or you can buy it out out right. Apartments are usually for rent.

Hey man, great video, just got wanted to clarify one thing for you. The San Francisco-Oakland bridge is commonly known as the Bay Bridge to local Californians.

New Orleans: Jazz and crack Tampa: Beaches and crack Arlington: Guns and crack So on and so forth

33:58 Detroit was the home of the car as Henry Ford lived there and made the car affordable with the new idea of the production line of cheap Model T's, as well as the home of the founders of GM and Doge, making it the spot for all later car companies to put there headquarters. Hens why it's called the Motor City.

This is the only toycat channel i like

Rewatching this gem again and I never even realized that in the thumbnail El Paso is placed in the north pan handle of Texas

2:02 New Orleans is such a beautiful state.

Tucson is pronounced Two-son. The chimichanga was invented there.

Greetings from Louisville, and the Kentucky Derby run here is a very big event. So big in fact that the Oaks (the race of female horses ran the day before) is a local city holiday that we all get out of school for. Some derby traditions are Derby Parties where people usually draw a horse from a hat and if that horse wins they win money. Derby pie is usually made or bought from a store, and people (women mostly) wear elaborate Derby hats. And Louisville has its own airport but the Cincinnati Airport is technically in Northern Kentucky and is only about 40 minutes away, so it’s also popular if you can’t get a flight out of Louisville

24:15 (Doing Milwaukee) "Yeah I know it's the capital" *Sad Madison noises*

‘New orleans is 50th biggest state’ last i checked it’s a city

congratulations, you annoyed me for 15 seconds with san jose

Condo is a type of ownership. You own the unit, but not the common areas. I happen to live in a rowhouse/townhouse but its also a condo because I don't own the outside. Condos can be townhouses or apartments/flats. Other townhouses are considered to be "single family" homes because they own a yard around it.

17:20 yes i was at a women's college for a summer camp through duke tip at a Atlanta school and the whole week they were preparing to film some scenes in a movie with the Rock, that's why we were rushed out of the camp when it was over.

As a person from Albuquerque I can confirm that A) Breaking Bad is essentially public school here B) Gary Johnson is from here and C) You only have to get a 60% on the driver's ed test to pass, thus the traffic incidents

Toycat: *picks the worst part of El Paso to represent the city* Also Toycat: Maybe El Paso isn’t that great Me, a native El Pasoan: 🤦🏻‍♂️

Washingtonian here. Baltimore is actually worth visiting. Yes, there are problem areas that the city doesn't seem to have any interest in improving, but there's also a lot of interesting places to go. Baltimore focuses largely on its east side, and there's quite a number of things to do. I don't get there much, but I do like the city.

I love how much time you talked about Denver!

I refuse to believe that cities like long beach are cities. you live in LA, stop lying to yourself

Me, an American from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma’s knowledge of the same cities: New Orleans: Great City! Tons of history and culture. Still somewhat of a tourist trap. Tampa: No clue. Big city in Florida. Arlington: Been close to. Know it for AT&T American Football stadium. Tulsa: TULSA! Land of old money from oil booms long ago. They have a great art museum financed by the oil wealth. Minneapolis: Disappointing, but it’s not your fault. I went there to see a hyped-up shopping mall, which was much less than advertised. Very cold. Oakland: I know of their NFL team but nothing else. Virginia Beach: Big intelligence community there. Omaha: Known for steaks. Raleigh: Fast-growing. Miami: Known for beaches. Colorado Springs: Drove through there two years ago and don’t remember it much. Kansas City: Known for barbecue, as a result of it’s cattle driving history. Atlanta: Please annex your suburbs! Sacramento: California capitol. Know two friends from there on Discord. Mesa: No clue. Fresno: Heard of if. Tuscon: 2nd biggest city in Arizona. Pronounce it TOO-SAWN. Albuquerque: LOVE IT! Go there. Just go. Milwaukee: Known for cheese and beer. People from Wisconsin can be called cheeseheads as a pejorative. Baltimore: Only know it for crime and shrinking population. Louisville: Never been there, but my ancestors lived there for a few generations before moving further West. Las Vegas: My knowledge of this place doesn’t extend past the CGP Grey video. Oklahoma City: Home. Known for 1995 terrorist bombing and not much else. Memphis: Known for being the home of Elvis Presley, therefore music. Home of the Blues music genre. Portland: I want to live there so much! Nashville: Home of tons of Country music genre stars. Detroit: Automotive manufacturing in the past. Shrinking population. El Paso: On the border and it had a massacre last Summer. Boston: Snobby universities on the outskirts. Heavy Irish history. Washington DC: Capitol. Built on a swamp. Denver: been there. Great airport. Seattle: The more popular Portland. Indianapolis: I know nothing apart from the Formula 1 tournament. Charlotte: I know that it’s a big city. San Francisco: REALLY? Is it only Fifteenth? Horrible gentrification. Columbus: Capitol of Ohio. Jacksonville: Basically all of North Florida apart from Tallahassee. Austin: I know a lot of people that move there and appear to love it there. It has a scenic river through the city. San Jose: I’ve barely ever heard of this place outside of the 60’s song. How is it this big? Dallas: No. Get out. Horrible traffic. I only go down there for their IKEA and one time to attend an NHL game. San Diego: America’s Pacific Naval hub. On the border with Mexico, with Tijuana on the other side. San Antonio: Only know it for the Alamo memorial. Philadelphia: The real center of the US’ early history. Likely would’ve become the capitol if not for D.C.’s creation. Phoenix: Fast growing city in the middle of the desert. Wouldn’t exist without air conditioning. Houston: Flooded horribly three years ago after a hurricane. Chicago: Bad reputation, but I actually really like it. Tons of museums to see. Los Angeles: Absolutely MASSIVE! NEW YORK, NEW YORK: There’s something just magical about it. It’s almost legendary, at least on this side of the Atlantic, for being the starting place. Nearly all immigrants from Europe came into this country from an island just outside the city. Just listen to the Frank Sinatra song. Hundreds of years of history and the most Dutch influence of any large city.

Phoenix also has a really popular light rail (tram) as well :) Used to take it every day.

Heyyyyyyyy you said Oregon properly! Thats freaking impressive bro. I will subscribe just on that. Massive.

The Bronx is known for 2 things: The Yankees, and getting shot

I like how you “insulted” Mesa but you actually perfectly described it

An apartment is a rented portion of an apartment building. A condo is something that you own, which can come in many physical forms. Usually there are association fees that cover things like common area maintenance, building insurance, water/sewage bills…

Your Atlanta was very very accurate, by combined statistical area atlanta jumps to 8th in the country. Also the main reason hartsfield is so busy is it was designed to be thanks to its great geography. It’s a great spot to fly to Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, South America, and the eastern United States. So they built the airport to have pass through terminals, connecting all the terminals with an underground people mover. The result is way more flight spots, meaning they’re cheaper, meaning more airlines will choose to connect through atlanta

"I have a friend from Columbus, Ohio - He says, 'it is okay'" Accurate

“New Orleans is the 50th biggest state” -Toycat

Condo and apartment are both individual units in a bigger single building, but you rent an apartment and own a condo. The quality of a condo unit is usually better than an apartment unit. A management company that owns an apartment building fixes stuff in your apartment, provides appliances, etc. But for condos, members in the building pay an "association fee" each month to cover maintenance costs for the building as a whole.

San Francisco attracts business DESPITE being blue? Yeah, and I guess Seattle and New York and Boston are just lucky too.

When you're excited to hear ibx2cat talk about your city and he talks about it for less than 30 seconds.

San Josie, California Edit: I live in the actual capital of New York, it honestly sucks here.

I was born and lived my first 26 years in Fresno. You didn’t miss anything in your commentary.

Tampa Am contest. Still goes on every year

The reason why Virginia beach has a large population despite the city proper being relatively small is that the former town of Virginia Beach Resort and county of Princess Anne merged in the 1950s to form the independent city of Virginia Beach. The city is actually a collection of mostly suburban communities in addition to the boardwalk area.

As an American, I'd say, they're the same living space/type of building. But if you own it, it's a condo. If you rent it, it's an apartment.

A condo usually has 2 or more floors while an apartment usually is just one floor. (condos are usually nicer than apartments)

Im from virginia, Mount trashmore used to be a landfill and got transformed into a park, and its so lowly populated because it doesent use high density housing

Atlanta, Georgia also has the 2nd most sprawling metropolitan area in the US (after Hickory, NC), and is also the most forested major city in terms of percent of tree cover in the US.

If there’s one thing someone should know about Norfolk, Virginia, it’s that it’s our version of a city like Bremerhaven. The American Navy has two main hubs; one for each ocean. Norfolk for the Atlantic, and San Diego for the Pacific.

Just found this guy and I got to say I love this video lol

I genuinely believe that Toycat’s explored more of my own country than I have.

Amazing video once again mate! Three extra facts to supply: Tucson is pronounced Too-sonn Nashville is famous as the Hollywood of Country & Western Music You might know San Diego Zoo from Anchorman!

I'm from Boston and my first impression of Dublin when I visited is how much it felt like Boston, so I appreciated that you also saw the Irish connection.

A condo, short for condominium, is a situation where the residents own their individual units and are responsible for the interiors, but are part owners of an association that handles building-wide or exterior stuff. Usually, they pay mandatory subscription fees to the association to keep it funded. Apartment buildings or connected townhouses will often be organized this way if they're not rentals. Technically, the duplex house I live in is a condominium, but in that case, the only owners are us and the person living in the other half, and it's more informally organized than a typical condo. What it means is that we have to agree on anything we do to the exterior, the grounds or the roof, and we'll split the cost on anything that really touches both units.

As a Long Beach citizen I am very excited you talked about it

8:11 that's funny because Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland all have huge Somali communities (and in Helsinki Somalis are the third largest minority) and Minnesota has many Nordic people and lots of Nordic influence

I just want to point out that mount trashmore is exactly what it sounds like. It is a mountain of trash (an old landfill) that was covered with grass to make a park.

Also, fun fact, Colorado Springs is home to The USA Olympic Training Center and headquarters, as well as the country’s only museum to honor Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

I'm from Boston and the longfellow bridge is amazing because you get one of the best views of the city and the red line also goes over so you can watch it go past! There's also a station on the bridge